Improvement in compounds for covering coffins



JAMES w. BOWER, OF GBEENGASTLE, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMPOUNDS FOR COVERING COFFINS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 115,687, dated June 6, 1871.

cheap article, when prepared in the manner hereinafter mentioned.

Take one gallon of pure pine tar and boil to an ordinary temperature 5 then add one-half pound of pulverized asphaltum andfour ounces of rubber dissolved in turpentine; mix and stir the mixture till ingredients are thorough- 1y incorporated; then, with a brush or paddle, apply the prepared mixture to the sea soned wood and apply a hot iron. Let the mixtore cool andhardeu on the wood, and then give another coat in the manner above described. After the second coat the wood should be corked and brushed till it is smooth; then sprinkle on pulverized litharge for a drier, and, when dried, it may be painted and grained to any color, and finished with varnish, the same as any other piece of furniture.

The above process composes the ontsidefinish of a casket or burial-case. For the inside of a burial-case apply the first and second coats, as above described; then take good common muslin and cut it so as to fit the inside, and lap all the joints and corners in said case; apply another coat over this material with hot irons; then the case is ready for the regular lining of coffins, &c.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The compound for covering coffins, 850., to make them air-tight, formed of theingredients and applied in the manner specified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

JAMES W. BOWER.

Witnesses WILLIAM D. ALLEN, Orno. ALLEN. 

